History of Berthierville, Québec, Canada

is pleasantly situated on the N. side of the Chenail du Nord, and forms one principal street, consisting of 125 houses placed, sometimes at long intervals, on the side of the main road to Quebec: many of them are extremely well-built and handsome. There are, exclusive of dwellings, a great many granaries and storehouses for general merchandise, it being a place of some trade, whence British manufactured goods are dispersed over the neighbouring populous seigniories, and whence also large quantities of grain are annually exported. - The population is 850. - The church that claims notice not only as being a handsome structure, but for the elegance of its interior decoration, is situated at a small distance behind the main street. This village being about mid-way between Montreal and Three Rivers, in the direct route of the public stage coaches that have been established upon the plan of those in England between the former place and Quebec, and being also the principal intermediate...

BERTHIER, a county of Lower Canada, in the district of Montreal; bounded on the NE by the co. of St. Maurice; on the E and SE by the St Lawrence; on the SW by the co. of Lachenaie; and on the NW by the northern boundary of the prov. It is 240 m. in length, and 24 m. broad. Area 5,760 sq. m. Pop. in 1836, 17,695. The surface for a distance of 15 m. from the St. Lawrence is generally level. It is watered by the Bayonne, Chicot, Great and Little Chaloupe, St. Charles, St. Joseph, St. John, and Brook rivers. - The village of Berthier is situated on the Chenail du Nord, on the main road to Quebec, midway between Montreal and Three rivers. Pop. 850.

A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Volume 1
Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859

BERHIER, a county in the western part of the Province of Quebec, bordering on the St. Lawrence, has an area of 1,501,412 acres. It is drained by the L'Assomption river, and several smaller streams. Lake Maskingonge, in the N.E. part of the county, is about 4 miles long and 3 miles wide, and is the source of the Maskinonge river, an affluent of the St. Lawrence. The chief products are woollen goods, linens, flax, oats, and tobacco. Chief town, Louisville. Pop. 19,993.

BERTHIER EN HAUT, a river port of Quebec, the chief town of the co. of Berthier, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, and on the Q.M.O. & O. R.R., 45 miles N.E. of Montreal. It has a Roman Catholic church, and a church of England, college, grammar school, English seminary, 2 telegraph offices, 4 hotels, a tannery, and 17 stores. Pop. 1,600.

...A land-slide occurred near Berthier-en-Haut, Que., on the 7th, and what was a high bank along the river disappeared, leaving in its place an enormous cavity some five or six acres in extent. Several cows and horses were killed and many barns were smashed to pieces.